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EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS
Volume 253, Issue 1-2, Pages 50-56Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2006.10.019
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glaciers; palaeoclimate; Middle Pleistocene; Mediterranean; Greece
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A major reduction in summer temperatures during a Middle Pleistocene glacial cycle caused the most extensive glaciation recorded in the Mediterranean region. Glaciers in the mountains of Greece formed during marine isotope stage (MIS) 12 (474000-427000 years BP) under climatic conditions characterised by mean summer temperatures at least 11 degrees C cooler than today and annual precipitation of <= 2300 mm at the equilibrium line altitude (1741 m a.s.l.). This represents the coldest mean summer temperatures recorded in Greece during at least the last 430000 years. Later Pleistocene glaciations (MIS 6 and 5d-2) were characterised by warmer summer temperatures and higher annual precipitation. (c) 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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